Indent region with prefix

Indent region with prefix

[Chris L]

If I have these lines:

There once was a geek from Nantucket
who counted his loops in a bucket.
But then he found Perl,
his hair started to curl,
and his slide rule fell out of his pucket.

And I want to transform them as quickly as possible to:

> There once was a geek from Nantucket
> who counted his loops in a bucket.
> But then he found Perl,
> his hair started to curl,
> and his slide rule fell out of his pucket.

What do I do? I'm not in Gnus or email mode, this is for Markdown
text. Right now I am using a keyboard macro, but it seems like there
should be a simple bit of magic to accomplish this, since it is so
similar to commenting.

c

Re: Indent region with prefix

[Stephen Berman]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:56:09 -0800 (PST) Chris L <Chris.Lott@gmail.com> wrote:

> If I have these lines:
>
> There once was a geek from Nantucket
> who counted his loops in a bucket.
> But then he found Perl,
> his hair started to curl,
> and his slide rule fell out of his pucket.
>
> And I want to transform them as quickly as possible to:
>
>> There once was a geek from Nantucket
>> who counted his loops in a bucket.
>> But then he found Perl,
>> his hair started to curl,
>> and his slide rule fell out of his pucket.

Mark the region to be indented and then type C-x r t (string-rectangle).

Steve Berman

Re: Indent region with prefix

[David Golden]

Chris L wrote:

 
> What do I do? I'm not in Gnus or email mode, this is for Markdown
> text. Right now I am using a keyboard macro, but it seems like there
> should be a simple bit of magic to accomplish this, since it is so
> similar to commenting.
> 
> c


Note that there is a full-featured markdown-mode for emacs which
provides blockquote formatting (C-c C-s b with region active):
http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/  
though I've never used it personally.


If you're just in Text mode, say, and not saying it's the best way, but
a very quick way to do it is:

Have a line containing "> ", place point just after. Hit "C-x ."   
(That's set-fill-prefix).

indent-region uses the fill-prefix if it's set, so now set the region 
to the lines you want prefixed,   and hit C-M-\    
(that's indent-region).   The indent will insert "> " for you.

That also means that you can M-x fill-region  (rewrap) the 
"> " prefixed text, and fill-region will keep the prefixes 
where they're supposed to be while fill-prefix is set.

Re: Indent region with prefix

[Andrea Vettorello]

On Jan 16, 2008 7:56 PM, Chris L <Chris.Lott@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I have these lines:
>
> There once was a geek from Nantucket
> who counted his loops in a bucket.
> But then he found Perl,
> his hair started to curl,
> and his slide rule fell out of his pucket.
>
> And I want to transform them as quickly as possible to:
>
> > There once was a geek from Nantucket
> > who counted his loops in a bucket.
> > But then he found Perl,
> > his hair started to curl,
> > and his slide rule fell out of his pucket.
>
> What do I do? I'm not in Gnus or email mode, this is for Markdown
> text. Right now I am using a keyboard macro, but it seems like there
> should be a simple bit of magic to accomplish this, since it is so
> similar to commenting.

With cursor on the first line i would run cua-set-rectangle-mark (i
don't know the default keybind, here it's M-Enter), select the first
row (C-u C-n) then insert "> ", it will be replicated on the
rectangular region.


-- 
Andrea

Re: Indent region with prefix

[Scott Frazer]

Chris L wrote:
> If I have these lines:
> 
> There once was a geek from Nantucket
> who counted his loops in a bucket.
> But then he found Perl,
> his hair started to curl,
> and his slide rule fell out of his pucket.
> 
> And I want to transform them as quickly as possible to:
> 
>> There once was a geek from Nantucket
>> who counted his loops in a bucket.
>> But then he found Perl,
>> his hair started to curl,
>> and his slide rule fell out of his pucket.
> 
> What do I do? I'm not in Gnus or email mode, this is for Markdown
> text. Right now I am using a keyboard macro, but it seems like there
> should be a simple bit of magic to accomplish this, since it is so
> similar to commenting.
> 

C-space at the beginning to set the mark, go past the last line and
M-x string-insert-rectangle > SPACE RET

Re: Indent region with prefix

[Exal de Jesus Garcia Carrillo]

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Andrea Vettorello em gnu.emacs.help escreveu :

>
> With cursor on the first line i would run cua-set-rectangle-mark (i
> don't know the default keybind, here it's M-Enter)



C-h f cua-set-rectangle-mark RET says <C-return>.


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Re: Indent region with prefix

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:56:09 -0800 (PST), Chris L <Chris.Lott@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I have these lines:
>
> There once was a geek from Nantucket
> who counted his loops in a bucket.
> But then he found Perl,
> his hair started to curl,
> and his slide rule fell out of his pucket.
>
> And I want to transform them as quickly as possible to:
>
>> There once was a geek from Nantucket
>> who counted his loops in a bucket.
>> But then he found Perl,
>> his hair started to curl,
>> and his slide rule fell out of his pucket.
>
> What do I do? I'm not in Gnus or email mode, this is for Markdown
> text. Right now I am using a keyboard macro, but it seems like there
> should be a simple bit of magic to accomplish this, since it is so
> similar to commenting.

You already have a fair number of suggestions in this thread, but in
this case it's also simple to:

  1. Mark the region
  2. M-x replace-regexp RET ^ RET > SPC RET

The string-rectangle command is my favorite for anything more complex
than a simple regexp can do.

HTH,
Giorgos